this talks about all the major events taken in by edith nesbit in her life and some more interseting facts

1. EDITH NESBIT

2.  EDITHNESBIT (married name Edith Bland; 15
August 1858 – 4 May 1924) wasan English author and
poet; shepublished her booksfor children under thename
of E. Nesbit.
 Shewroteor collaborated on over 60 booksof fiction for
children, several of which havebeen adapted for film and
television. Shewasalso apolitical activist and co-founded
the Fabian Society, asocialist organization later affiliated to
theLabour Party.

3. HER BIOGRAPHY
 Nesbit was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington
Lane in Kennington, Surrey (now part of Greater
London).
 The daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis
Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth
birthday.
 Her sister Mary's ill health meant that the family
travelled around for some years, living variously
in Brighton, France, Spain and Germany, before
settling for three years at Halstead Hall in Halstead in
north-west Kent, a location which later inspired The
Railway Childre n (this distinction has also been
claimed by the Derbyshire town of New Mills).
 When Nesbit was seventeen, the family moved back

4. SHE AS A
WRITER…

5.  Nesbit published approximately 40 books for children,
including novels, collections of stories and picture books.
Collaborating with others, she published almost as many
more.
 Among Nesbit'sbest-known booksare TheStory of the
TreasureSeekers (1898) and The
Wouldbegoods (1899), which both recount
storiesabout theBastables, amiddle-class
family that hasfallen on (relatively) hard
times. TheRailway Children isalso known
from itsadaptation into a 1970 film version.
Her children'swriting also included
numerousplaysand collectionsof verse.

6. HER WORKS…

7. NOVELS FORADULTS
• The Prophet's Mantle in 1885
• Something Wrong in 1886
• The Marden Mystery in 1896
• The Secret of the Kyriels in 1899
• The Red House in 1902
• The Incomplete Amorist in 1902
• Daphne in Fitzroy Street in 1909
• Dormant aka Rose Royal in 1911
• The Incredible Honeymoon in 1921
• The Lark in 1922

8. BASTABLE
• 1899 The Story of the Treasure Seekers
• 1901 The Wouldbegoods
• 1904 The New Treasure Seekers
• 1902 Five Children and It
• 1904 The Phoenix and the Carpet
• 1906 The Story of the Amulet

9. P
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• 1886 Lays and Legends
• 1887 The Lily and the Cross
• 1887 The Star of Bethlehem
• 1888 The Better Part, and other poems
• 1888 Landscape and Song
• 1888 The Message of the Dove
• 1888 All Round the Year
• 1888 Leaves of Life
• 1889 Corals and Sea Songs
• 1890 Songs of Two Seasons
• 1892 Sweet Lavender
• 1892 Lays and Legends
• 1895 Rose Leaves

10. MADE BY-
• NAME-SHRESTHA GUPTA
• CLASS-VII-D
• ROLL NO.-18
• SUBJECT- ENGLISH

11. THANKS
NEHA GUPTA
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